Search Results: Titles starting with P from BookAddiction

London, UK: Penguin Books. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A collection of five P G Wodehouse Penguin paperbacks, all published circa 1970s. 12mos. All in generally good condition - covers a little worn and marked, lightly rubbed at edges. Internally pages are lightly tanned; Psmith in the City has reading creases along spine. Very readable condition.

London, UK: Penguin Books. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ionicus (cover art). Four1980s Mass Market Paperbacks. Each in laminated light card covers, all with cover illustrations by Ionicus. 12mo. Gentle edge wear to card covers and some mild page toning. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves has a previous owner's name penned on first page. A nice, very readable set.

London, UK: Penguin Books. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ionicus (cover art). Three mid 1980s Mass Market Paperbacks. Each in laminated light card covers, all with cover illustrations by Ionicus. 12mo. Gentle edge wear to card covers and some mild page toning. Bachelors Anonymous has a tiny nick in the top edge of the front cover. A nice, very readable set.

London, UK: Penguin Books. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A collection of six P G Wodehouse Penguin Orange paperbacks, all published circa 1960s. 12mos. All in generally good condition - covers a little worn and faded, rubbed at edges, a little scuffed at spine ends and the occasional corner crease. Internally pages are moderately tanned; Uneasy Money has a cracked gutter. Very readable condition.

London, UK: Pavilion / Michael Joseph, 1981. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 256pp plus occasional monochrome plate illustrations. In dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth ever so slightly rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge a tad dust darkened. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original illustrated dust jacket, lightly bumped along upper edge.

London, UK: George Bell and Sons, 1926. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. viii, two colour fold-out map, 160pp, xlviii, [8]pp publisher's ads. Green cloth-covered boards; dark blue publisher's logo on front, dark blue titles on front and spine; rear board cracked, some light soiling. 16mo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed extremities. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers starting to tan. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Lipzig, DE: B G Teubneri, 1898. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xlii, 494pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed spine ends, cloth torn at spine heel. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers starting to fox and tan; water damage to bottom edges; affects last few pages (not text). Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Oxford, UK: Oxonii, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xvi, 452pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Slight rubbing to the spine ends. Text block edges foxing. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Otherwise, bright, neat and tight. Sun-faded dust jacket spine, some small ink marks across the back, shelf wear; price clipped.

London, UK: Macmillan, 1927. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 150pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; black illustration on front, black titles on front and spine. Sun-faded spine, bumped ends. Stamp on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, baring some underlining to the text. 16mo. Edited with an introduction, notes and vocabulary by Arthur Calvert. With illustrations. Text in Latin.

Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 160pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Analyses the fighter aircraft which was the biggest and heaviest aircraft to be powered by a single piston engine and became the most prolific of all US fighters.

Torrance, CA, USA: Micro Publishing Press, 1997. Facsimile Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 198pp. Pictorial light card covers; illustrated with some black and white photographs. 8vo. Chipping to edges of front cover. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

London (11 Paternoster Buildings): Printed by Unwin Brothers at the Gresham Press for T Fisher Unwin and Published by Him, 1892. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Vierge, Daniel. First English Edition (translated from the original Spanish). Full title: Pablo de Segovia - The Spanish Sharper, Translated from the Original of Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas, Illustrated with One Hundred and Ten Drawings by Daniel Vierge, together with Comments on them by Joseph Pennell and an Essay on the Life and Writings of Quevedo by Henry Edward Watts. xlii, 240pp. Vellum boards, seven raised bands, eight panels on spine with leather title labels, all edges coloured (boards soiled and rubbed at edges, rounded on corners, scuffing on spine). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, title page and accents in red and black. Profusely illustrated (endpapers a little tanned, strained at gutter, tissue guard browned, else internally neat, clean and fresh. The only novel written by Quevedo… Read More

London, UK: Marlborough Graphics, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unpaginated. Laminated printed light card covers. Some soiling to covers, delamination top right corner. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Oblong 8vo.

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 210pp. Laminated printed light card covers. In as new condition throughout. 8vo. Introduces the rich artistic traditions of the two regions. Includes 138 illustrations with 100 in full colour.

London, UK: Longmans, Green & Co, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Parker, Nancy. 134pp. Cream cloth-covered boards, red illustration on front, red titles on spine. Sun faded spine, bumped extremities. Wear and soiling to covers. Text block edges starting to fox. Map endpapers, bookseller's label on front paste down. Previous owner's label on verso of front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring very occasional foxing to prelims. No dust jacket. 8vo. Brief history and guide to the islands of the Pacific and her peoples from early settlers to the arrival of the white man.

London, UK: Collins, 1941. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 288pp. Light blue cloth-covered boards; navy titles on spine, bottom text block edge untrimmed. 8vo. Boards and spine lightly foxed. Sun-fading to spine and around edges of boards. Corners moderately rubbed and rounded. Top text block edge dusty, fore-edge lightly soiled. Pastedown endpapers starting to fox and tan, free endpapers starting to tan, previous owner's name in pen on front free endpaper. Pages tanning. Internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has heavy wear around edges and folds with <6cm closed tears, chipping, larges sections of loss at spine ends and smaller sections of loss along the top and bottom edge and the fold of the rear flap, moderate soiling, rear flap has a heavy crease along its length, price-clipped; interior moderately tanned and soiled with some light foxing.

London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 168pp. Signed on the title page by Geraldine McCaughrean. 8vo. A touch of toning to text block edges. In its original dust jacket, very slightly bumped at spine base. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. Winner of the 1987 Whitbread Children's Novel Award

Peterborough, UK: Silver Link Publishing, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 112pp, illustrated throughout in black and white photographs. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring some faint toning on page margins. Dust jacket has some light chipping to top edge, price unclipped. 4to. Looks at the station that has undergone almost continuous improvement and development since its construction in 1854.

Eschborn, DE: German Agency for Technical Cooperation, 1982. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 232pp, , several charts and tables and two fold out diagrams. Printed card covers, 6 colour photographs on front, black titles on front and spine. 8vo. Covers moderately soiled, one corner curling. Shelf number sticker held with tape at spine heel. Lender's rubber stamps on front and fore text block edges. Lender's stamps and markings inside covers and on title page. Internally neat, bright and tight. With parts on field handling and drying, paddy loss to microorganisms, paddy loss to insects, grading, storage, impact of deterioration on milling and training Foreword by Peter Muller.

London, UK: Crecy Publishing, 2014. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 208pp, including numerous black and white illustrations. In laminated card covers. 8vo. Very slightly rubbed on corners else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Of all the Battle of Britain fighter pilots, Finucane was arguably the most enigmatic yet the media spot light never left him and he was pegged at 'Bader's Successor'. This new edition of his biography has additional material afforded by access to the Finucane family archives.